Lawmakes are urging everyone on Capitol Hill to have their computers checked for malware after discovering that people working from inside China hacked into multiple congressional machines and accessed locations of Chinese dissidents and other sensitive data.
Virginia Representative Frank Wolf said four of his PCs were …

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It is always the Chinese :)

I think it is China way of saying we need to firewall them in rather than have the expense borne by the Chinese government for the Great Firewall of China.

Which is oddly a bit like the irony of the Original Great Wall of China, which was really designed to keep the Chinese in, by the third build.

China is going to be a force to reckon with, is already, and they have limited the birth rate, which is on the face of it a good move. The jostling is about who is the world superpower, can the US better the Chinese in the cyber plane, well so far no.

Act of War?

Stored what? Where?!

"His office no longer stores the names of Chinese dissidents on computers"

I think that sums it up. Did he think all those crazy security standards the CIA and NSA have were for nothing? Was there no reason that information must be hand entered into secured non-networked systems? Me-thinks he should stick to trying to keep a notebook secure. That will be quite difficult enough for him.

@ Will Godfrey

Aren't you glad that you live outside of China and can make critical remarks without being blackbagged (yet)? Personally, I'm glad someone is being critical of China, especially since things like the Patriot Act in the US sure sound Chinese to me.

Mines the one with the sickle and anvil going up in flames on the back...

Most favored what?!

D'you like dags, capitalist dags

Having the Chinese take over is probably the only cure for USAyness. Lets face it the yanks are falling further away from the European model and degenerating into barbarians faster than they can build rockets (Predator in CH11). Whatever fructose and poison induced craziness is going on in the US, stupidity now rules with an iron fist, even compared to the McCarthy days.

The Chinese hopefully will put some discipline on their new possessions and the southern states get to see the return of their beloved slavery albeit in a slightly different format.

It's either that or sub contract the Russians to nuke the US, but then there's the environmental problems.

p*rn

It seem...

that people are asuming that all politicians know nothing. It seems to me this guy is quight clued up about PCs for a non IT person. As for "well if he had used proper AV..." some people seem to be forgeting this is probably not some script kid or bot farmer, this looks like it might be the Chinese equivelent of the NSA or GCHQ, probably writing there own stuff never seen befor by AV vendors, so AV would probably be know use.

thing about Chinese hack attacks...

Don't know what the fuss is all about...

I guess storing confidential data on unsecured computers is marginally more secure than printing it off on hard copy and leaving it on public transport for all and sundry. Either way, politicians and civil servants are their own worst security leaks.

They took their time

Lame congressmen

So it is my understanding that these computers were not up on anti-spyware software updates. That these congressmen went to known web sites with malware on them. And then they blame others for their failure to secure their computers. What fools!

Grow up and join the new world. You have to run anti-virus and anti-spyware software, update security patches on your computer, and do not go to sites with malware on them.

These congressmen are just trying to drum up anti-China fervor by supporting known anti-chinese groups. China has every right to view these groups the same way Americans view Osama Bin Laden and Al-queda.

If you are going to the olympics

Forget about taking any electronic device - the whole place is going to be spiked with every hacking tool known to mankind. I am surprised that the media hasn't made more of this. Just take your trusty film cameral, and wait till you get home to send all those great shots out to friends.

Paranoid

Ah

Ah , the fear of "IT" strikes again , the false spin doctors and local perpetrators weave their tales of fiction to cover their steps "Watergate Style" whilst the real enemy resides just down the road in Maryland !